Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek are best known as the founding band members of The Doors. But many do not know that their friendship dates back to their time as UCLA film students. Read more...
Photo: Jim Morrison, one of the founding members of The Doors, met his bandmate Ray Manzarek while the two were UCLA film students. The UCLA Film & Television Archive is working to preserve their student films with The Jim Morrison & Ray Manzarek Preservation Project. (Courtesy of Frank Lisciandro)
Every three seconds, someone develops Alzheimer’s disease – but Bruna Cabral is trying to find hope despite its negative impacts on millions of families. The UCLA Extension student’s short film follows an 8-year-old boy named Dylan (Mason Wells) whose 80-year-old best friend begins to lose her memory due to Alzheimer’s. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Extension student Bruna Cabral wanted to convey the importance of being patient with those who have Alzheimer’s disease in her short film “Piece of Me.” The films follows an eight-year-old boy whose 80-year-old best friend begins to lose her memory due to the disease. Cabral said she wanted to juxtapose the innocence of a young child with an elderly character. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
This post was updated April 3 at 3:24 p.m. Archery helps a woman change her fate in Gregory Armstrong’s short film. The Theater, Film and Television graduate student said his film, “The Art of Survival,” combines Idaho’s cultural phenomenon of doomsday preppers – complete with their honed survival skills – with female empowerment. Read more...
Photo: Jessica Ruth Bell plays Alice, a doomsday prepper, in “The Art of Survival,” Gregory Armstrong’s short film. As writer and director, Armstrong, a Theater, Film and Television graduate student, said his film combines female empowerment with the phenomenon of preparing for doomsday. For the film, Bell was trained and advised in archery by Angela Lam, UCLA’s former archery club president.(Axel Lopez/Assistant Photo editor)
In the early 1900s, men often attended stag parties at clubs or fraternities where they paid to watch stag films – a subgenre of pornography – in a group setting. Read more...
Photo: Maya Rose Dittloff, a fourth-year film and television student, Carla Emilian Olivas and Cheree Fraser are part of “STAG PARTIES,” a series written, directed and produced by Dittloff. Olivas and Fraser both act in the series, which will begin filming Thursday. (Tanmay Shankar/Daily Bruin)
Hopefully, you’re not afraid of your shadow. But if you are, Jordan Peele’s latest venture might not be for you; “Us” highlights the separation of body and soul, good and evil, human and shadow. Read more...
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According to Gaspar Noé, death is sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person. The Argentine-French filmmaker’s latest film, “Climax,” first premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the United States on March 1. Read more...
Photo: Director Gaspar Noé’s film “Climax” was released in the United States on March 1, after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. The film follows a dance troupe’s harrowing night after drinking sangria laced with LSD. (Creative Commons photo by Olivier Strecker)
A critic in the ’80s told L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Alile Sharon Larkin that her short film was terrible. Years later, the same critic watched the short at a screening of the L.A. Read more...
Photo: The 1979 L.A. Rebellion film “Your Children Come Back to You” is part of The Broad and Art + Practice’s “Time is Running Out of Time: Experimental Film and Video from the L.A. Rebellion and Today.” It was directed by alumna Alile Sharon Larkin, who is part of the wave of L.A. Rebellion films. (Courtesy of Joshua White)
